MURDER victim Geoffrey Reed was a serial sex attacker who served a lengthy prison sentence for raping a vulnerable adult and young child.

He was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2002 for four counts of rape and was released in November 2011 after being recalled for breaching the terms of his licence.

The paedophile had also been convicted for other historical sex crimes. He attacked a 16-year-old girl in his car and appeared at Bournemouth Crown Court in 1997 for this offence. The court heard Reed had taken his victim to a car park in Bournemouth’s Meyrick Park and tried to force himself on her.

He was jailed for six months for indecent assault.

In March 1998, in the first case of its kind in Dorset, Reed, then aged 43, was brought before magistrates in Bournemouth for failing to register as a sex offender.

A law introduced in September 1997, required him to register within 14 days of conviction.

Then married and working as a kitchen porter at the Bridge House Hotel in Longham, Reed was given a 12-month conditional discharge.

In July 1999, Reed was fined £250 and ordered to pay £50 costs by Wimborne magistrates for failing to register his details with the police.

He told the court he had forgotten to notify his change of address. And in March 2001 he was jailed for one month for a similar offence.